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Travel Nursing Jobs Blog launched

A nurse's perspective on travel nursing jobs.

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Steps to Get Your First Nursing Position

Nursing tips about networking, challenging yourself and taking advantage of opportunities that come your way.

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Keeping Safe- Measure to limit overtime would help nurses and their patients

New York's shortage of nurses has strained hospital staffs and placed patients at risk. Forced to work extra hours to make up for the shortfall, many nurses burn out from shifts that can stretch from 12 to 16 consecutive hours. That just makes a bad situation worse and endangers more lives.

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Nurse midlife-Influx of midcareer professionals may mitigate a shortage in the healthcare field

This article was interesting considering that there is such a demand for more nurses in our workforce. It talks about nursing as a midcareer. My older sister actually became a nurse when she was 32 because she wanted a career that paid better but had a humanitarian element to it.

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Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities

The National Institute of Nursing Research supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span-from management of patients during illness and recovery to the reduction of risks for disease and disability, the promotion of healthy lifestyles, promoting quality of life in those with chronic illness, and care for individuals at the end of life. This research may also include families within a community context.

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Fifth National DNA Day to Showcase Genomic Discoveries and Careers

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will mark the fifth annual National DNA Day on April 25 with events aimed at building high school students’ awareness of genetics and genomics. April 25 commemorates both the discovery in 1953 of DNA’s double helix and the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project.

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A Nurse in Every Operating Room

Nurses fight for mandates requiring hospitals to hire registered nurses as OR circulators.

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Nurse wins £800,000 for back injury

A former intensive care nurse has accepted £800,000 compensation after injuring his back at work.

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